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TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT FARMING YOU MUST SAY THE SAME PRAYER EACH
YEAR, ONCE FOR EVERY 10 ACRES OF LAND YOU PLAN TO PLANT. EACH
FARMER MUST HAVE HIS OWN SAYING OR PRAYER.

Where learned: MISSOURI

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686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually.
686 First / Once / One / Newness
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BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming
BELIEF -- Measure of time Year
BELIEF -- Prayer
BELIEF -- Number Inter related specific numbers in a belief: Two's a couple, / Three's a crowd; / Four on a sidewalk / Is never allowed. (Also see C700 and C800 for numbers in verse.) In computer entries our example

Date learned: 00001940S

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